CEAS Student Center Expansion

Author

Turner Solterman, Western Michigan UniversityFollow

Date of Defense

4-12-2017

Date of Graduation

4-2017

Department

Civil and Construction Engineering

First Advisor

Decker Hains

Second Advisor

Houssam Toutanji

Abstract

Western Michigan University has had a long-standing tradition of engineering excellence. To keep up with the modern culture and to maintain that Western will be on the forefront of universities providing an excellent engineering education, an expansion to the current CEAS building on the Parkview campus is necessary. Aptly named the CEAS Student Center Expansion, this project will be a space exclusively for student engineering groups to work in a space where collaboration across different engineering disciplines will be as easy as walking across the floor to talk to someone else. Through the floor plans of the different alternatives we propose, the goals of having a collaborative space will be accomplished in a beautiful addition to the Western Michigan University campus.

Due to the fact that this is still a very conceptual idea, S³ LLC has been hired by the Dean’s Office of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences to conduct a preliminary design of the building described above. The goal of the design outlined in this report is to 1) gauge if the project is feasible from a financial standpoint and 2) give the design firm that will actually carry through with the design some idea of the material selections and quantities that will be necessary for this type of building. We will present a structural steel model, a foundation design plan, and a 3D Revit model to accurately define what we propose. We will also present a full construction cost estimate and full construction schedule for each of the three alternatives. And lastly, it is worthy to mention that the concept of sustainable construction will be incorporated in all aspects of the design and construction planning, as well as a commitment to keeping this project as green as possible.

Recommended Citation

Solterman, Turner, "CEAS Student Center Expansion" (2017). Honors Theses. 2862.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/honors_theses/2862

Access Setting

Honors Thesis-Open Access